| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6382760 |
Air vane cooling system for thermal inkjet printers with moving movable carriages |
May 7, 2002 |
| An air vane directs air to cool the printhead of thermal inkjet printers having one or more movable carriages. A passive air vane is mounted on or molded to some portion of the carriage, printhead, ink tank or ink tank holder so that it moves with the movable carriage. Moving the air van |
| 6283590 |
Liquid ink printer including a non-scorching dryer assembly |
September 4, 2001 |
| A non-scorching dryer assembly for drying a liquid ink image printed on a sheet of paper. The non-scorching dryer assembly includes a housing defining a portion of a sheet moving path; a sheet transport assembly for moving a sheet of paper carrying a liquid ink image on a front side |
| 6231176 |
Self-tensioning flexible heater assembly for drying image bearing substrates in an ink jet print |
May 15, 2001 |
| An ink jet printing machine for printing liquid ink images on a recording medium moving along a recording medium path through a printing zone. The printing machine includes a printhead for image-wise depositing liquid ink droplets on the recording medium, and a self-tensioning flexible h |
| 5712672 |
Recording sheet transport and effluents removal system |
January 27, 1998 |
| A transport system for transporting a recording sheet having liquid ink deposited thereon through a dryer for drying the liquid ink having an input portion and an output portion. The transport system includes a transport belt disposed between the input portion and the output portion |
| 5631685 |
Apparatus and method for drying ink deposited by ink jet printing |
May 20, 1997 |
| An apparatus for drying ink deposited upon cut sheet of paper. The apparatus includes a microwave generating member to generate microwave energy for the ink and an applying member connected to said microwave generating member to apply resonating traveling microwaves to the paper. The |
| 5579693 |
Curl control of printed sheets |
December 3, 1996 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling curl in a liquid ink printer. The liquid ink printer deposits an anticurl material on the side of a printed sheet opposite the one having printing deposited thereon. The anticurl material is a fluid which counteracts the steady state curl in the |
| 5422463 |
Dummy load for a microwave dryer |
June 6, 1995 |
| A matched or dummy load for a microwave dryer having a microwave generator and a microwave applicator. The matched load includes a waveguide having opposed broad walls, opposed narrow walls, and an end wall defining a waveguide chamber. A power absorbing body made of sintered silicon |
| 5410283 |
Phase shifter for fine tuning a microwave applicator |
April 25, 1995 |
| A phase shifter for shifting the phase angle of microwaves traveling in a waveguide of a microwave circuit. The phase shifter includes a dielectric plate which has first and second parallel surfaces, a distal edge, a proximate edge, a leading edge, and a trailing edge where each of the |
| 5396270 |
Wet paper handling of ink jet images to allow passive drying |
March 7, 1995 |
| An ink jet printer has a sheet conveying and drying device having a plurality of flexible, resilient yet stiff fingers connected in a cantilevered manner to a drive chain which moves the fingers from a printed sheet receiving tray to a sheet stacking tray. After sheets are printed by |
| 5220346 |
Printing processes with microwave drying |
June 15, 1993 |
| Disclosed is a printing process which comprises applying in imagewise fashion to a substrate an ink composition which comprises an aqueous liquid vehicle, a colorant, and an ionic compound at least partially ionizable in the liquid vehicle, said ink composition having a conductivity |
